Secretariat was the best racehorse I've ever seen and I suspect will ever see.

"Big Red" won the Belmont by 31 1/2 lengths, setting a track record that still stands today, in what was probably the greatest single athletic showing of my life.

One of the sport magazines (maybe "Sports Illustrated") listed the greatest 100 athletes of the 20th century, and Secretariat was included (the only non-human to make the list) fairly high on the roster.

The horse had heart, literally. After he died, and an autopsy was performed, they discovered all his organs were of normal size excepting his heart, which was incredibly TWICE the size of a normal horse!